Coin-controlled device for vending-machines.



PATENTED JULY 14, 1903. S. A. WEBBER & W. J. DAVIS. I COIN CONTROLLED DEVICE FOR VENDING MACHINES.

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UNITED STATES ,Patented July 1c, 1903. PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL A. WEBBER AND WILLIAM J. DAVIS, OF WINDFALL, INDIANA, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-HALF TO SHERIDAN CLYDE AND CHARLES K. D.

ROSS, on ELWOOD, INDIANA.

GOiN CQNTROLLED' DEVICE FOR VENDING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 733,924, dated July 14, 1903. Application filed J'anuary 17, 1903. Serial No. 139,421. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL A. WEBBER and WILLIAM J. DAVIS, citizens of the United States, residing at Windfall, in the county of Tipton and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin- Oontrolled Devices for Vending-Machines, &c.; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to coin-controlling devices for vending-machines.

One object of our invention is to provide such a device with an improved form of coinchute having branches through which the piece deposited in a slot is adapted to meander until it reaches a receptacle.

Another object of our inventionis to provide such a device with an improved construction of pivoted detent with which a genuine coin passing through a chute comes in contact to swing the same and a push-bar having a locking member with which the detent engages to arrest the movement of the push-bar until released.

Other objects and advantages will be here;

\ inafter made clearly apparent, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in

' which- Figure 1 is a vertical section of the front.

part of the casing of a vending-machine,showof our invention and cooperating accessories,

numerals will be employed, the same numoral applying to a similar part throughout the several views. A

Referring in detail to the various parts of our invention, 1 and 2 indicate, respectively,

secured to the horizontal section 5.

together so the lower and upper parts of the front wall of our casing for a vending-machine, while 3 designates portions of the side walls thereof, a suitable bottom 4 being also provided. We prefer to provide an offset at the front of the casing formed by the horizontal section 5, and within the casing thus or otherwise fashioned we locate the various operating de-' vices described, shown, and claimed in our application for United States Letters Patent for improvements in vending-machines, filed August 21, 1902, Serial No. 120,536, which are adapted to hold the merchandise, such as cigars or the like, and deliver one of them at each operation of pushing the push-rod inward as will be hereinafter more specifically set forth.

[indicates downwardly c'onverging upper in the receiving member 8, located upon and The receiving member 8 may, if preferred, be formed of two complementary sections fitted separated by the rib-section 9, which is substantially' V-shaped, as will be observed, the lower end thereof terminating in contact with the circular member 10, formed of glass and properly embedded between the two halves of the member 8.

The coin-chutes 7 extend downward and communicate with the throat 11 by means of the ,inner curved. branches 12. The coinchutes 7, however, extend somewhat in a devious way, inasmuch as they diverge or spread into channels 7 and extend downward through the horizontal section and the central part of an iu ner block or body section .13 in the form of converging channels 7*, so as to deliver the coin ihto engagement with coin-seats 14 on the inner ends of interposed detents 14, having weighted outer ends l4= and pivotally mounted within chambers 15, formed in the body portion 13. The interposed detents 14 being held in position by suitable pivots 16, each detent is disposed so that the inner end thereof will lie in the pathof the coin as it falls downward in one of the converging channels 7 of the chutes channels of coin-chutes, which are provided that the coin ebutes 7 will be 7, thus insuring that the weight of the coins will depress the inner ends of the detents 14 and correspondingly elevate the outer ends 14" thereof sufiiciently to raise said outer ends out of engagement with the inner ends 17 ofinwardly-tapered locking members 18, secured to the push rods (3 and working through inverted keyhole-slots 19 in the body portion, and thereby permit the latter to be pushed inward to operate a vending device. When a push-rod 6 has been moved outward, the outer end of the interposed detent will, being weighted, drop downward in advance of the end 17,and thereby positively lock the push-rod 6 from farther inward movement until another coin is placed in the chute, and thus brought into engagement with the inner end of the detent, and thereby again overbalance and raise the outer end of the detent out of engagement with the inner end 17 of the locking member.

It will be observed that each of the detents 14 is provided with a controlling-spring 20, which are so mounted on the back of the body-section that their forwardly-projecting arms 20 will be moved upward in suitable.

vertical slots 21, provided in the body portion 13, the object of said springs 20 being to hold the outer ends 14" of the detents 14 in positive engagement with the inclined upper edge of the locking members 18, and thus insure that said outer ends 14 ofthe interposed detents 14 will be in a position to drop downward in advance of the ends 17 of the locking members 18.

The object in providing that the locking members 18 shall be inwardly tapered upon their upper edges is to impart a sufiicient movement to the inner ends of the detents, which will cause said ends to be depressed out of the path of the coins which have been arrested by the seats 14, causing said inner ends to move inthe are of a circle, and thus enable the coins to drop downward past the same into the coin-conveyor chute 23 and thence to the coin-box 24.

The body portion 13, in which the coinchutes are formed, is complemented by an outer block or body portion 25, inasmuch as the chute 11 extends therethrough in an outwardly-inclined direction terminating in the aperture 11". It will be observed that laterally and outwardly extending branches 26 are formed in the inner block 13, so as to communicate, respectively, with coin-chutes 7,- and these chutes 2b are formed to communicate with similar chutes 27, whichie-xtend outward through the outer block 25.

The object of the several branches from the coin-chutes is to prevent spurious coins from being introduced into the machine to operate it.

, of lead is dropped into the coin-chutes 7, it

If, for instance,a five-cent piece formed ward through the aperture 11, formed in the outer block 25 and in the receiving throat or hopper 28 to. be dropped into the receptacle 29, where it may be, again procured by the operator, or said receiving-throat 28 may be extended into the cash-box. If the lead piece is thus caused to take this course, itis clearly obvious that it will not have any elfect upon the machine, inasmuch as it does not come in contact with either of the counterpoised detents 14. If, however, a five-cent piece made of iron is dropped into either of the coinchutes 7, it will possess suificient resiliency to cause it to be-deflected by the glass member 10 into a diverging branch 7 outside of a partition-block 30, this rebounding action of the iron piece being augmented bya magnet 31, thereby causing the iron piece to be attracted by or cling to the magnet and be directed thereby into a laterally-extending branch 26 and thence outward through the corresponding chute 27, formed in the outer block 25, the iron piece being delivered into the receiving-chute 23, as in the case of the lead piece. When, however, a genuine coin is dropped within either of the chutes, it will strike the glass member 10 and be deflected outward thereby, and since the magnet will not possess the power to change its course it will follow the course of theproper chute and thence into engagement with the seat 14 or the inner end of the detent-.14 and .overbalance and elevate the outer end 14: of the detent, carrying the outer end 14! of the detent out of engagement with the inner end 17 of the locking member 18, as heretofore explained, so'as to enable the push-rod 6 to be operated.

It will be seen that the various details of our device may be very inexpensively and expeditiously manufactured. It will be further obvious that the spurious coins will produce no force effect upon the device whereby the unlocking or releasing of the push-rod is conhaving its inner end projecting into the coin chute and pivoted inthe chamber with its outer end extending across the path of the locking member and a controlling-spring extending through the vertical slot and bearing on the outer end of the detent as set forth.

2. A coin-controlled device for vending-machines comprising a receiving member having a coin-chute, a chamber, a vertical slot in rear of and in communication with the chamber, and an inverted keyholeslot beneath the chamber, the push-rod having an inwardlyextending through the vertical slot and beartapered locking member and working in the ing upon the outer end of the detent as set keyhole-slot beneath the chamber, a detent forth.

' having its inner end projecting'into the coin- In testimony whereof we aifix our signa- 5 chute, and pivoted in the chamber with its tures in presence of two witnesses.

outer end extending across the path of the SAMUEL A. WEBBER. locking member, and a controlling-spring ex- WILLIAM J. DAVIS. tending through the vertical slot bearing on Witnesses: the outer end of the detent and secured to the JOHN D. BAKER,

IO back of the body-section, and having an arm J AS. HANSELL. 

